Material for fences.



N075s,154. 4 PATBNTBD APR.2e,-1904.

' LSTICKLEY.

\ MATERIAL FOR FENCES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1a, 1903.

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b 35% z u I I I .7 V 7 V I QAltQPIIl YS UNITED STATES Patented April 26, 1904.-

P TENT OFFICE.

MATERIAL FOR FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO; 758,154, dated April 2 6, 1904. Application filed July 18, 1903. Serial No. 166,173. (No inodel.)

To wZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH STIGKLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mansbridge, in the county of Charles Mix and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful Material for Fences, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to metal fences of the class wherein movable barbs are employed at suitable intervals, and has for its object to simplify and improve devices of this character and produce a fence material which is simple in construction, cheaply and easily manufactured, and which will possess great strength metal strips 10 11, preferably of flat ellip-' tical shape in transverse section, as shown in Fig. 3, andprovided at intervals with registering transverse apertures formed in the thick central portion thereof, with studs 12 secured in the apertures, as by riveting. Every alternate stud is provided with spacer members 13, and the remaining alternating studs are provided with spurs 14, mounted for rotation thereon. The spurs are each formed with a plurality of radiating sharp points spaced apart, as shown, and of suflicient length to extend beyond the strips, as shown. The elliptical cross-sectional form of the strips provides for the firm supporting of the spurwheels without binding thereof, The strips thus constructed are attached to the posts, one of which is represented at 15, by staples 16 in the usual manner, and any number of the strips may be employed, and inpractice the upper. strips will be arranged with the 'spurs and strips in a vertical position and one or more of the intermediate strips in reversed position or with the spurs and strips horizontal, as shown in Fig. 1. Generally the upper strips will be placed with the spurs and strips vertical and the neXt lower strips reversed and the remaining strips in the same position as the upper strips; but more of the strips may be arranged with the spurs and strips horizontal, if preferred.

The studs and the spacers and spurs supported by them may be disposed at any re- ..quired distance apart, but will generally be arranged about one and one-half inches apart; but these distances may be varied, if required.

The material employed will be of iron or steel of-suitable gagei and galvanized or otherwise coated to prevent corrosion.

The spurs 14 will be of metal of sufficient strengthto resist the pressure to which they will be subjected, so that they will not bend under the strains.

A fence constructed of this material possesses many advantages overthe ordinary barb-wire construction in that while it repels the animals fully as elfectually as the ordinary barb-wire it will not tear or rend them, as the spurs while prodding them when they come in contact with the points will not tear the flesh or hair, but will roll beneath the pressure and by constantly pricking the flesh cause the animals to retreat without injury. The animals frequently approach fences at an angle thereto or brush along the wires, and when this takes place with the ordinary barbwire construction the animals are frequently severely torn and injured by the barbs.

With a fence constructed as above described, however, no such injury can take place, as the spurs will roll beneath the side or angular pressure and simply prick the animals and cause them to quickly retreat without injury, as above noted. More0ver,.the adjacent convexed faces of the strips fit closely to the spurs, so as to prevent undue lateral play thereof without interfering with the rotation of the spurs and at the same time permit tiltingof the spurs to prevent the same frombecoming wedged between the strips, and thereby rendered non-rotatable.

Having thus described my invention, what 100 I I claim is A fence-runner comprising a pair of comthereof and permitting tilting of the spurs,

whereby the latter are prevented from becoming wedged between the strips and thereby rendered non-rotatable.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH STIOKLEY. Witnesses:

GEO. L. BLANOHARD, JAMES HANSHUTT. 

